1909 in New Zealand

1909 in New Zealand:

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Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Regal and Vice Regal 2 Government 2.1 Parliamentary opposition 2.2 Main centre leaders 3 Events 3.1 Undated 4 Arts and literature 4.1 Music 4.2 Film 5 Appointments and awards 6 Sport 6.1 Boxing (amateur) 6.1.1 National amateur champions 6.2 Billiards 6.3 Cricket 6.4 Horse racing 6.5 Rugby league 6.6 Rugby Union 6.7 Tennis 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also 10 References

Incumbents

Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State - Edward VII
• Governor - The Lord Plunket GCMG KCVO ^[1]

Government

The 1tth New Zealand Parliament, Liberal commenced.

• Speaker of the House - Sir Arthur Guinness
• Prime Minister - Joseph Ward
• Minister of Finance - Joseph Ward
• Attorney-General - John Findlay

Parliamentary opposition

Leader of the Opposition - William Massey (independent until February and thereafter as leader of the Reform Party) ^[2]

Main centre leaders

• Mayor of Auckland - Arthur Myers then Charles Grey
• Mayor of Hamilton - James Shiner Bond then James Alexander Young
• Mayor of Wellington - Alfred Newman
• Mayor of Christchurch - C. Allison
• Mayor of Dunedin - John McDonald then James Walker

Events

• 12 February: Inter-island steamer SS Penguin is wrecked at Cape Terawhiti in Cook Strait with the loss of 75 lives.^[3]

• 14 February: The first North Island Main Trunk passenger express train leaves Auckland for Wellington, an overnight trip scheduled to take 19 hours 15 minutes, with a sleeping car, day cars with reclining seats, postal/parcels vans, and a dining car for part of the way.

Undated

• The Canterbury (NZ) Aero Club , the first in New Zealand, is formed by George Bolt.^[4]

Arts and literature

See 1909 in art, 1909 in literature, Category:1909 books

Music

See: 1909 in music

Film

See: 1909 in film , List of New Zealand feature films , Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1909 films

Appointments and awards

See:

• Archbishop of New Zealand
• Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia , see appointments to Diocese

Sport

Boxing (amateur)

National amateur champions

• Heavyweight - M. Ryan (Invercargill)
• Middleweight - S. Monaghan (Ohakune)
• Welterweight - G. Watchorn (Palmerston North)
• Lightweight - J. Finnerty (Invercargill)
• Featherweight - J. Hagerty (Timaru)
• Bantamweight - C. Stewart (Timaru)

Billiards

• No competition

Cricket

Horse racing

See Category:New Zealand horse races, list winners.

Rugby league

New Zealand national rugby league team

Rugby Union

• Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield only once, beating Taranaki 18-5

Tennis

• Anthony Wilding and Australian Norman Brookes, as the Australasian team, successfully defend the Davis Cup, beating the United States 5-0. The final is held in Sydney.
• Anthony Wilding wins the men's singles at the Australian Open.

Births

• 27 July: Charles Brasch, poet and literary editor.
• 20 August: Alby Roberts, cricketer.
• 15 September: Jean Batten, aviator.
• 31 October: Frank Bateson, astronomer.
• 23 December: Don Cleverley, cricketer.

• Ralph Hanan, politician.
• Bill Pratney, cyclist.
• Tom Skinner, politician, Federation of Labour president.
• Jack Watts, politician.

Category:1909 births

Deaths

• Samuel Brown, Mayor of Wellington.

Category:1909 deaths

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

For world events and topics in 1909 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1909

References

1. ^ Statistics New Zealand: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1990. ISSN 0078-0170 page 52
2. ^ "Elections NZ - Leaders of the Opposition". Retrieved on 2008-04-06.
3. ^ Christchurch City Libraries
4. ^ Rendel, David (1975) Civil Aviation in New Zealand: An Illustrated History. Wellington. A.H. & A.W.Reed. ISBN 0 589 00905 2

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